In November, Assembly members failed to agree on an Ulster Unionist motion to end double-jobbing by 2011.
He stepped down as part of Sinn Fein's commitment to end double-jobbing - where politicians hold more than one elected post.
On double jobbing, the DUP leader claimed the practice was already on its way out, but "only the SDLP clings to it".
Nouns get all the good parts potato, macaca, the Appalachian Trail but this winter, in Paris, a jobbing three-syllable adjective set off a political scandal.
Instead, Sinn Fein sought to shift the media focus from its royal dilemma by concentrating on its MPs' decision to end Stormont Westminster double jobbing.
Even in America there are eccentric spots such as Washington, DC, where big pickups are rare, beyond a few used by builders or jobbing gardeners.
The Conservatives may point to the impending ban on double jobbing as a reason why Martin McGuinness et al are now making their choices between Stormont and Westminster.
Ms Fearon has been co-opted as an MLA, replacing Conor Murphy in Newry and Armagh as part of the party's phasing out of double jobbing by its MPs.
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He told his fellow MPs that in principle the SDLP wished to end double jobbing, but he believed there was a benefit in party leaders having a role at both Stormont and Westminster.
Although the car-parts companies have been ruthless with their own suppliers a tour of the depressed jobbing shops in Tokyo's Ota district gives a flavour there is fat to cut further up the supply chain.
Coincidentally, on the day the writ was moved for the Mid Ulster by-election, the Northern Ireland Office published its draft bill on double jobbing and other potential changes to the political system here.
In the car industry, for instance, restructuring has if anything been more intense among the car-parts companies, and the jobbing shops that supply them, as big manufacturers such as Toyota and Nissan squeeze costs.
The Mid Ulster by-election was triggered by Martin McGuinness's decision to concentrate on his Stormont job as deputy first minister, relinquishing his role as an MP in line with Sinn Fein's commitment to end double jobbing.
And following the decision of Martin McGuinness to resign as an MP in order to avoid so-called "double-jobbing", by holding a seat in both the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly, a by-election is also expected in his Mid Ulster constituency.
Thinking back to the era of UCUNF, when David Cameron was over here promising to tackle double jobbing and Sinn Fein's Westminster allowances, I can remember being told that consideration would be given to handing a Westminster seat to a runner-up if a victorious abstentionist candidate refused to take their seat.
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